The key thing to understand is async doesn't replace sync. There is still the need for human connection, they is still the need for synchronous comms. It just t

The key thing to understand is async doesn't replace sync. There is still the need for human connection, they is still the need for synchronous comms. It just turns out one flat medium of either text or video on their own don't work well and no one is playing with the video format. We're all staring at 4:3 squares or black boxes. When you actually shrink the video and make it all about "presence", the experience drastically changes. That's our finding anyway, and thats why you're seeing many others go down this same kind of bubble photo/video route. But thanks for the history lesson.